Major Current and Upcoming Activities
ASHEcon Luncheon (UPDATED)
Mike Chernew, Harvard University
12:00 PM, Sunday, January 3, 2010
Hilton Atlanta Grand Salon A
Due to confirmation hearings, Sherry Glied has indicated that she is unable to be in Atlanta. However, we have a great replacement in Mike Chernew, Harvard University. Mike is a member the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), and a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors and the Commonwealth Foundation’s Commission on a High Performance Health Care System. In 2000 and 2004, he served on technical advisory panels for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that reviewed the assumptions used by the Medicare actuaries to assess the financial status of the Medicare trust funds. On the panels, Dr. Chernew focused on the methodology used to project trends in long-term health care cost growth. In 1998, he was awarded the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators by the Association of University Programs in Public Health and in 1999, he received the Alice S. Hersh Young Investigator Award from the Association of Health Services Research.
ASHEcon Board Meeting
January 3, 2010, 8:00-10:00 AM
Hilton Atlanta Crystal D
iHEA/ASHEcon Reception
January 3, 2010, 6:00-7:30 PM
Hilton Atlanta Rm 214
iHEA Sessions
January 4, 2010, 10:15
Hilton Atlanta, Room 212
AEA/IHEA
Determinants of Child Health (I1)
Presiding: JONATHAN GRUBER (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Childhood Nutritional Status in the US and the Relative Price of Food, JAY BHATTACHARYA (Stanford University)
- Childhood Endowments, Parental Investments and the Developent of Human Capital: Evidence from Siblings, ANNA AIZER (Brown University and NBER)
- The Medium Term Schooling Effects of Low Birth Weight: Evidence from Siblings and Twins, JASON M. FLETCHER (Yale University )
Discussants: JODY L. SINDELAR (Yale University and NBER), ANGELA R. FERTIG (University of Georgia), KASEY S. BUCKLES (University of Notre Dame)
January 4, 2010, 2:30
Hilton Atlanta, Room 212
IHEA
Issues in Health Economics and Health Insurance (I1)
Presiding: RICHARD ARNOULD (University of Illinois )
- Geographic Variation in Medicare and Non-Medicare Health Care Spending, MICHAEL E. CHERNEW (Harvard University), AMITABH CHANDRA (Harvard University), LINDSAY M. SABIK (Harvard University), TERESA GIBSON (Thompson Medstat), JOSEPH P. NEWHOUSE (Harvard University)
- Measuring Welfare and the Effects of Regualtion in a Government-Created Market: The Case of Medicare Part D Plans, CLAUDIO LUCARELLI (Cornell University), JEFFERY PRINCE (Cornell University), KOSALI SIMON (Cornell University)
- Time and Risk Preferences in the Choice of Health Insurance Coverage, W. DAVID BRADFORD (University of Georgia), JAMES F. BURGESS, JR. (Boston University)
Discussants: KATHERINE CLOUD (University of Georgia), LEEMORE DAFNY (Northwestern University), RANDALL P. ELLIS (Boston University)
The preliminary schedule for the AEA/ASSA sessions is available online at the AEAWeb
Third Biennial ASHEcon Conference:
June 20-23, 2010
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
ASHEcon Newsletter
We are pleased to announce the Professor Melayne McInnes has agreed to serve as editor of the ASHEcon Newsletter. The newsletter is a quarterly electronic publication.
